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English - Persuasive Writing
- Description:
- In the NAPLAN Writing test, students will write a persuasive text. The Persuasive genre includes:
* Audience (The writer’s capacity to orient, engage and persuade the reader)
* Text structure (The organisation of the structural components of a persuasive text (introduction, body and conclusion) into an appropriate and effective text structure
* Ideas (The selection, relevance and elaboration of ideas for a persuasive argument)
* Persuasive devices (The use of a range of persuasive devices to enhance the writer’s position and persuade the reader)
* Vocabulary (The range and precision of contextually appropriate language choices)
* Cohesion (The control of multiple threads and relationships across the text, achieved through the use of grammatical elements (referring words, text connectives, conjunctions) and lexical elements (substitutions, repetitions, word associations)
* Paragraphing (The segmenting of text into paragraphs that assists the reader to follow the line of argument)
* Sentence structure (The production of grammatically correct, structurally sound and meaningful sentences)
* Punctuation (The use of correct and appropriate punctuation to aid the reading of the text
* Spelling (The accuracy of spelling and the difficulty of the words used).
Year 5 Achievement Standard: They select specific vocabulary to express and develop ideas, to engage and persuade readers and to convey emotions.
Year 6 Achievement Standard: They create well-structured written, spoken and multimodal texts for a range of … persuasive purposes, for a broadening number of audiences.
Year 7 Achievement Standard: They create well-constructed spoken, written and multimodal texts to …persuade in which meaning is supported by planned structures and organisation.
Year 8 Achievement Standard: They create sustained and coherent written, spoken and multimodal texts in a variety of forms to explore significant ideas, report events, express opinions, and respond to others’ views. - School type:
- Government
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- Years:
- Middle Years (5 to 8)
- Category:
- English
- Software requirement:
- Starboard Stofware 9.2
- Curriculum:
- Writing, Spelling, Grammar, Speaking and Listening
- Other Info:
- Language variation and change, Language for Interaction, Text structure and organisation, Expressing and developing ideas
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